Xavier Becerra

I thank the ranking member for yielding me this time. I don't hear anyone disagreeing that our immigration system is broken. It is broken for our commerce as businesses try to figure out how to do the best business across the border, as…

We are expecting another speaker, but I reserve the balance of my time and let the gentleman from Texas proceed if he has another speaker.

Let me begin, Mr. Speaker, by thanking my colleague, but, more importantly, my dear friend, Mr. Sam Johnson from Texas, for the work that he did to move so quickly working with his able staff to try to make sure we had a bill come before…

Today, 160 million Americans pay into Social Security every day that they work, and as a result, they know that they and their families will be protected if they die, become disabled, or retire. For most of the 58 million Americans who…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today, the President is meeting with congressional leaders to discuss our strategy moving forward in Iraq and Syria to protect Americans, our homeland, and our national interests. It is hard…

We have more student loan debt in America held by our young men and women trying to get their college degrees and, of course, their parents, as well, who are paying for them, than we hold in all the credit card debt in America today. Does…

Tonight, with this bill, we see what happens when, for more than 390 days, our Republican colleagues refused to allow a vote on the Senate's bipartisan solution to a broken immigration system. But for the shutdown do-nothing politics in…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. The corrosive effects of shutdown do-nothing politics is on full display here tonight in the House of Representatives. Stripping the rights and protections of children is never a good solution in…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Madam Speaker, I agree with those who have said that doing nothing is not an option. But making matters worse should not be an option either. Stripping children of the chance to establish their…

I would not call it a crisis. I would call it a crisis what happened to all of Enron's employees who put money into their pensions.

You want to talk about a crisis, talk about someone who depends almost exclusively on Social Security, about cutting their benefits.

For most Americans, Social Security is the heart of retirement security.

Democrats do not think that we should be hunky dory, going around town just thinking that we should do nothing on Social Security.

I was unavoidably detained and missed rollcall vote 437. If present, I would have voted ``no.'' (By unanimous consent, Mr. Boehner was allowed to speak out of order.) Honoring Dr. Jessica Bienstock

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise to engage in a colloquy with the gentleman from New Jersey, Chairman Frelinghuysen. First, Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you and the ranking member for your efforts in…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Today's vote on H.R. 4438 and on five other Republican bills to come that would permanently extend other tax breaks without paying for them will increase the deficit by $310 billion and lead to…

To deprive American citizens who don't know about this, to deprive those immigrants who came to this country legally and are working in this country and today have the same protections to make sure they are not discriminated against for a…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, let me say in advance that I appreciate the work that has been done by any number of Members with regard to this legislation. Many people have engaged in a good faith effort to…

I thank the ranking member on the Budget Committee for, first, all the work he has done over the years in trying to get America back on track when it comes to what it should do with its budgets. Budgets are a testament to our values and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, let me first acknowledge the work that has been done by so many of our colleagues here bipartisanly, the gentleman from Delaware, the gentleman from California, the committees of…

I thank the gentleman. So once you separate the facts from the myth, it becomes pretty clear what we have to do. We have to make sure if you are an American we reward you for your work. If you are an American and you get health insurance…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 537) and ask for its immediate consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: H. Res. 537 Resolved…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, first the facts--not the facts from this side of the aisle, not the facts from the other party, but the facts that we get from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which is in…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 531) and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 531 Resolved, That the following named Members be and are…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 15 to demand a vote on the bipartisan immigration reform bill that has been held up for more than 733 days to honor our American values…